Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Controversial Harvests

BBC reporter Gavin Esler throws out interesting numerical facts: the United States has now been at war in Iraq longer than it was at war against Hitler during World War II and that Saddam Hussein has been an American enemy for more than 16 years, far longer than Hitler.

Now widely seen as a referendum on the situation in the war-torn country, Americans wait to vote in mid-term elections as the race runs down to its final moments.

Matters are not helped by accusations that the court that tried Hussein "was a completely illegitimate creation" or revelations that a former US evangelical leader with close ties to the White House has confessed to his followers that he was guilty of "sexual immorality" after a male prostitute revealed that he had been paid for sex by the religious leader.

"I am a deceiver and a liar," Ted Haggard said in a letter, who had often advised Bush on policies such as same-sex marriage. Republicans are very dependant on the white, evangelical vote.